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Keywords:
elliptic curves; Selmer groups
Summary:
We explicitly perform some steps of a 3-descent algorithm for the curves $y^2=x^3+a$, $a$ a nonzero integer. In general this will enable us to bound the order of the 3-Selmer group of such curves.
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